Step 5: Next, add some patterns to the body by drawing different circular shapes throughout the back and a curved line for the belly. You can color your Dessert Rain Frog light brown. Leave the belly white.

Interesting Facts about Desert Rain Frogs

Desert Rain Frogs like sand. They like sand so much they are almost always covered in it. Desert Rain Frogs live in South Africa. The frogs are fat and short. They have short legs and webbed feet, and their undersides are a brownish yellow color. Desert Rain Frogs like hot and sandy places. They hunt for food at night and hide in the sand during the day. Desert Rain Frogs like to eat beetles and moths. When the sun comes up the frog will dig a place for itself in a sand dune.

Did you know?

Diamond mining has ruined a lot of the Desert Rain Frog’s habitat.

As known as a Melkpadda.

You can see through the underside of a Desert Rain Frog. Just turn it over and you can see its internal organs!

A sand burrow for these frogs is about 4-8 inches deep.

These frogs don’t have tadpoles; they hatch from eggs buried in the sand.

Activity: This frog’s hiding ability is the perfect excuse for a game of hide and seek.